Fields:

In the Wonderful Relations datatable configuration you can create datatable fields. Every field must be present in the underyling query. This concept is used to have an presentation layer. So data manipulation should be handlet in the query, presentation in the datatable settings.

Parameters:

• Query Field
• Title
• Type
• Visibility
• Text Align
• Sort Order
• DataTable Order
• DataTable Order Type
• Renderfunction

Query Field:

You can only select fields present in the underlying query.

Title:

Title of the Datatable Column

Type:

Expected datatype. This information is used to render the data with the default render function for this type. See Render Functions.

Special Case: Subtable data is prepared on the server side, so we also have to generate html code on the server side, which is more limited than to do this with a render function in the frontend.

Visbility:

• Visible – Show data in table
• Hidden – Do not show data in table, but provide it
• Collapse – Data is shown in the colapsed section

Text Align:

• left
• right
• center

Sort Order:

Order of column

DataTable Order & Order Type:

As you can reorder the data by column and because of the server side paging approach, we have to think about, in which order the data should be presented. This is important, that the table could have the columns highlighted, and also for datatables, that no reloading of data happends. 

=> TODO SHOW EXAMPLE OF PAGED LOADING AND SORTING

Renderfunction:

If you what to present data in a different way then the default renderfunctions provide, you can insert here a custom renderfunction.